crash test dummy
noun
: a life-size model of a person used in tests to see what happens to people when a car gets into an accident
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This test was recently updated, and now includes a child-sized crash test dummy behind the driver’s seat.
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Logan Carter / Jalopnik, Quartz, 7 July 2024
Being a crash test dummy is the role New Yorkers insanely will be thrust into under a plan to let Big Tech test autonomous vehicles on NYC streets, Mayor Adams announced last week.
—Curtis Tate, New York Daily News, 3 Apr. 2024
The crash test dummy in the rear seat of the Sonata displayed submarining and the rear shoulder belt moved toward the dummy's neck.
—Andrew Beckford, USA TODAY, 5 Sep. 2023
An understudy would have been drafted to act as Haaland’s crash test dummy.
—Rory Smith, New York Times, 9 May 2023
Last October during a test at Talladega Superspeedway, AB Dynamics outfitted a Next Gen car with electric motors, robots essentially, and a crash test dummy then programmed it to crash into a wall at 130 mph.
—Greg Engle, Forbes, 16 July 2022
However the Ravens want to drive downfield in 2021, the Raiders might be an ideal crash test dummy for Week 1.
—Jonas Shaffer, baltimoresun.com, 13 Sep. 2021
The Tesla Bot, which looks kind of like a futuristic crash test dummy, will reportedly measure 5-foot 8-inches tall and is a fraction shorter than the average US man.
—Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 20 Aug. 2021
Idiot Coin would be a crash test dummy designed to underscore the wisdom of seatbelts.
—New York Times, 3 Aug. 2021
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Logan Carter / Jalopnik, Quartz, 7 July 2024
Being a crash test dummy is the role New Yorkers insanely will be thrust into under a plan to let Big Tech test autonomous vehicles on NYC streets, Mayor Adams announced last week.
—Curtis Tate, New York Daily News, 3 Apr. 2024
The crash test dummy in the rear seat of the Sonata displayed submarining and the rear shoulder belt moved toward the dummy's neck.
—Andrew Beckford, USA TODAY, 5 Sep. 2023
An understudy would have been drafted to act as Haaland’s crash test dummy.
—Rory Smith, New York Times, 9 May 2023
Last October during a test at Talladega Superspeedway, AB Dynamics outfitted a Next Gen car with electric motors, robots essentially, and a crash test dummy then programmed it to crash into a wall at 130 mph.
—Greg Engle, Forbes, 16 July 2022
However the Ravens want to drive downfield in 2021, the Raiders might be an ideal crash test dummy for Week 1.
—Jonas Shaffer, baltimoresun.com, 13 Sep. 2021
The Tesla Bot, which looks kind of like a futuristic crash test dummy, will reportedly measure 5-foot 8-inches tall and is a fraction shorter than the average US man.
—Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 20 Aug. 2021
Idiot Coin would be a crash test dummy designed to underscore the wisdom of seatbelts.
—New York Times, 3 Aug. 2021
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